'We're not going to be intimidated,' - protesters in NYC against arrest of Mahmoud Khalil - Vídeo Dailymotion

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00:00The message is very simple.

00:27We're not going to be intimidated.

00:28We're not going to let them strip us of our First Amendment rights, our Fifth Amendment

00:32rights, or our Thirteenth Amendment rights.

00:35His basic constitutional rights, and he's now detained in a hellish Louisiana prison.

00:43For over 18 months we've been fighting and demanding that our university divest itself

00:48from the military industrial complex that's caused the decimation of Gaza and left tens

00:54of thousands of people killed, without food or water, their homes destroyed, and we have

01:02been met with a kind of unprecedented form of punitive crackdown by the NYU administration,

01:07who is now sort of rolling out the red carpet for the Trump administration, and we see them

01:12as continuous.

01:14Free, free Palestine!

01:16Free, free Palestine!

01:18Free, free, free Palestine!

01:20Smash the settler Zionist state!

01:22Smash the settler Zionist state!

01:26Columbia has allowed ICE and DHS on its campus and did not protect its students, so our students

01:33here, and we're here today also, to send a message to the administration that we cannot

01:38allow this to happen.

01:40We are here to speak out against those injustices.

01:44Students deserve to be protected.

01:56He was harassed, abandoned, by the racist institution that was responsible.

02:02Free, free Palestine!

02:04Free, free, free Palestine!

02:06Free, free, free Palestine!

02:10It's too early to say what effect this will have.

02:13It could either have a chilling effect, whereby some people will be scared to be visible and

02:22active in the struggle for Palestinian rights, but there's also a way in which this will

02:30mobilize even more people who are enraged by this crackdown and by this egregious attack

02:39on freedom of expression and academic freedom.

02:50Resistance is justified!

02:52I believe that we will win!

02:54I believe that we will win!

02:56I believe that we will win!

02:58I believe that we will win!

03:28I believe that we will win!